With the announcement imminent, Jabil hinted at investment in to the additive manufacturing of printed circuit boards last week as media toured the company’s Blue Sky Center as part of the HP/ Deloitte Reinventing Manufacturing Event. It will contribute to Jabil’s widespread effort to promote 3D printing as an industrial manufacturing tool – HP’s Multi Jet Fusion platform forming the backbone of this vision.

The DragonFly is to be installed within Jabil’s San Jose base, where they will also house 6 MJF machines, adding to their repertoire, which includes an Ultimaker 3 farm, Stratasys Objet 260 Connex3, and machines from WASP and Formlabs, among others.

Jabil, last week, spoke of how new technology was allowing electrical circuit boards to be produced as thinner parts, yet maintaining the same properties of conventional ones. It becomes apparent now that Jabil had seen what the DragonFly 2020 can offer. Patent-pending, Nano Dimension’s process maintains the electronic components internally and prevents their exposure to the external environment. Mechanical, temperature and corrosion damages are also said to be less likely, and with components embedded during the print, there is no need for soldering.

Though Jabil is the first commercial customer, Nano Dimension has distributed a number of the machines through a beta program which began in 2016 and continued through the new year. In July, it was announced the program had concluded, machine updated per customer feedback, and early access commercial sales partners sounded out. Following that, reseller partnership were established in Europe and North America, and as summer draws to a close, it has been announced Jabil will lease the company’s flagship 3D printing technology.

“This is an important milestone for Nano Dimension as we enter into the commercial phase for our DragonFly 3D printers,” Amit Dror, Nano Dimension’s CEO told TCT. “We are proud and excited to bring additive manufacturing to the world of electronics.”